Voila!
Author: Diana Rajchel Date Posted: November 20th, 2007www.flickr.com
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I just got done fixing up my studio at the grand old time of 3 am this morning. I am relieved, overjoyed… and way behind on keeping my housework up to date. But life goes on - after all, I’m an artist, not some housefrau.
And I am incredibly pleased with the efforts my investment has brought forth. The desks you see here I was already using - my boyfriend likes the wire-and-steel look for our cheerfully and inequitably shared office space, so I’ve agreed to work with it in exchange for near-total domination of decor in the rest of our home. And really - it’s not a bad look, not to mention incredibly easy to keep sanitary.
All of these mad organizational efforts were precipitated with a rotating issue I was having: I could do shows, OR I could keep up on my online business. I could NOT do both. This was because I would literally have to tear up my entire space two or three times in the course of the show to set up and tear down at home, at the space, at home again. After a particularly exhausting show last summer, I just quit for awhile until I could find some method of doing it more easily, since throwing all my extraneous goods in a laundry basket was really NOT working for me.
Enter the Container Store. (warning: obscene shipping prices to be found). I found the perfect solution for me, intended as a children’s toy box: a three tier storage box perfect for the endless flotsam of stuff I have to have at shows, ranging from table weights to wet wipes. So much better than a laundry basket.
And with that change, the rest of the office fell into place.
Indeed, as my friend Jill says, “The Container Store is love.” Just not their shipping prices.